EU trade flows · extra-EU
All trade flowsLactose
CN codes: 170211 · 170219
Latest customs month
May 2026
Imports · last 12 months
29kt
−23.2% vs the year before
Imports · avg unit value
627€/t
Exports · last 12 months
225kt
−11.0% vs the year before
Exports · avg unit value
1,877€/t
What the EU imports
Monthly imports
- May 2026
- 12-month average2.42 kt
- Imports0.84 kt
Where it comes from · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom27 kt93%
- 🇺🇸United States1.2 kt4%
- 🇮🇱Israel616 t2%
- 🇳🇿New Zealand64 t0%
- 🇮🇳India42 t0%
- 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates25 t0%
- 🇧🇷Brazil21 t0%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland19 t0%
- 🇨🇳China2 t0%
- 🇹🇷Türkiye0 t0%
- —All other countries7 t0%
Partner concentration (HHI): 8,694 · high
Countries outside a product's top twelve are counted under "all other countries" — the totals and shares stay honest, the list stays readable.
What the EU exports
Monthly exports
- May 2026
- 12-month average19 kt
- Exports16 kt
Where it goes · last 12 months
- 🇨🇳China42 kt19%
- 🇮🇳India28 kt12%
- 🇳🇿New Zealand25 kt11%
- 🇯🇵Japan21 kt9%
- 🇮🇩Indonesia10 kt5%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland10 kt4%
- 🇹🇭Thailand8.8 kt4%
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom8.6 kt4%
- 🇷🇺Russia6.9 kt3%
- 🇿🇦South Africa6.9 kt3%
- —All other countries47 kt21%
Partner concentration (HHI): 1,250 · low
Countries outside a product's top twelve are counted under "all other countries" — the totals and shares stay honest, the list stays readable.
Unit values
Declared value divided by declared weight, in euros per tonne — the closest thing a customs record has to a price. Import and export are not the same market: one is landed cost at the EU border, the other is border value on the way out.
- May 2026
- Import unit value€ 1,643
- Export unit value€ 1,949
The seasonal shape
The same twelve months laid over each other, per direction — this year drawn against the three before it, so a spring running ahead of last spring shows immediately.
Imports by month
- December
- 20235 kt
- 20243 kt
- 20256 kt
Exports by month
- December
- 202320 kt
- 202423 kt
- 202519 kt
Across the Atlantic: the US record
The same product through American customs — the Census Bureau files about a month faster than Comext, in dollars, under its own ten-digit lines. Volumes compare on the HS6 root both nomenclatures share; the codes beneath it do not.
Exports · last 12 months
425kt
−1.2% vs the year before
Imports · last 12 months
3.1kt
−11.6% vs the year before
United States
Jun 2026
Exports, 12-month average — EU vs US
- Jun 2026
- United States35 kt
Where it comes from
- Germany1.8 kt · 57%
- Netherlands1.0 kt · 31%
- New Zealand0.2 kt · 7%
- Israel0.0 kt · 1%
- France0.0 kt · 1%
Where it goes
- China86 kt · 20%
- New Zealand73 kt · 17%
- Japan47 kt · 11%
- Mexico38 kt · 9%
- Indonesia27 kt · 6%
The same shipment, two customs records
Two customs services, one trade, and rarely the same number. Small gaps are timing and freight. Large ones mean something structural: an export is filed the moment the cargo leaves, while an import is only filed once customs clears it. Where the gap is wide, our reading is that goods are waiting in port for clearance, which can take a long time — but that is an assumption, not something the customs record proves. Re-exports, transshipment and differing tariff-line coverage sit in between as well. Neither book is wrong; knowing which one a counterparty is quoting is the point.
United States → Europe · May 2026
- As the EU files it
- 1.2 kt
- As the US files it
- 4.1 kt
- Gap
- +2.9 kt +71%
US quantities are aggregated from ten-digit HTS/Schedule B lines that differ from the EU's CN lines beneath the shared six-digit root; values stay in dollars on purpose. Lines filed in litres are converted at 1.03 kg/l.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, USA Trade Online — public domain, credited as a courtesy. Retrieved 14 Aug 2026.
Extra-EU trade of the EU-27 aggregate. Flows between member states are a separate record and are never mixed in.
Customs data is living data: recent months are provisional and can be revised for a year or more. Every revision the daily ingest sees is recorded, never silently overwritten.